Animal Enthusiasms: Life Beyond Cage and Leash in Rural Pakistan

ISBN-13: 9780367859534 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 170 str.

Muhammad A. Kavesh

Opis

Animal Enthusiasms explores how human-animal relationships are conceived, developed, and carried out in rural Pakistani Muslim society through an examination of practices such as pigeon flying, cockfighting, and dogfighting.

 

Spis treści

Introduction;  1. Decolonising Passions;  2. Living with Pigeons: Rooftop Intimacies;  3. The Seduction of Cockfighting: Forbidden Dangers;  4. The Spectacle of Dogfighting: Amplified Masculinity;  5. A Life with Shauqeen: Familial Relations in a Multi-Species Household;  6. Threats to Genuine Shauq;  Epilogue: Life Beyond Cage and Leash